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Lamentations 2:1-10

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The Lord Has Destroyed Without Pity

1 How the Lord in his anger has set the daughter of Zion 1under a cloud! 2He has cast down from heaven to earth the splendor of Israel; he has not remembered 3his footstool in the day of his anger.
2 The Lord 4has swallowed up 5without mercy all the habitations of Jacob; in his wrath 6he has broken down the strongholds of the daughter of Judah; he has brought 7down to the ground 8in dishonor the kingdom 9and its rulers.
3 He has cut down in 10fierce anger all 11the might of Israel; 12he has withdrawn from them his right hand in the face of the enemy; 13he has burned like a flaming fire in Jacob, consuming all around.
4 14He has bent his bow like an enemy, with his right hand set 15like a foe; and he has killed all who were delightful in our eyes in the tent of the daughter of Zion; he has poured out his fury like fire.
5 16The Lord has become like an enemy; 17he has swallowed up Israel; 18he has swallowed up all its palaces; he has laid in ruins its strongholds, and he has multiplied in the daughter of Judah 19mourning and lamentation.
6 He has laid waste his booth like a garden, laid in ruins 20his meeting place; 21the LORD has made Zion forget festival and 22Sabbath, and in his fierce indignation has spurned king and priest.
7 23The Lord has scorned his altar, 24disowned his sanctuary; 25he has delivered into the hand of the enemy the walls of her palaces; 26they raised a clamor in the house of the LORD as on the day of festival.
8 27The LORD determined to lay in ruins 28the wall of the daughter of Zion; 29he stretched out the measuring line; he did not restrain his hand from destroying; 30he caused rampart and wall to lament; 31they languished together.
9 Her gates have sunk into the ground; 32he has ruined 33and broken her bars; 34her king and princes are among the nations; the law is no more, and 35her prophets find no vision from the LORD.
10 The elders of the daughter of Zion 36sit on the ground 37in silence; 38they have thrown dust on their heads and 39put on sackcloth; the young women of Jerusalem have bowed their heads to the ground.
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Lamentations 2:1-10 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO LAMENTATIONS 2

This chapter contains another alphabet, in which the Prophet Jeremiah, or those he represents, lament the sad condition of Jerusalem; the destruction of the city and temple, and of all persons and things relative to them, and to its civil or church state; and that as being from the hand of the Lord himself, who is represented all along as the author thereof, because of their sins, La 2:1-9; and then the elders and virgins of Zion are represented as in great distress, and weeping for those desolations; which were very much owing to the false prophets, that had deceived them, La 2:10-14; and all this occasioned great rejoicing in the enemies of Zion, La 2:15-17; but sorrow of heart to Zion herself, who is called to weeping, La 2:18,19; and the chapter is concluded with an address to the Lord, to take this her sorrowful case into consideration, and show pity and compassion, La 2:20-22.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 39

  • 1. [Lamentations 3:44]
  • 2. [Matthew 11:23]; See Isaiah 14:15
  • 3. 1 Chronicles 28:2
  • 4. ver. 16; [Psalms 35:25; Psalms 56:2; Ezekiel 36:3]
  • 5. ver. 17, 21; Lamentations 3:43; [Ezekiel 9:5, 10]
  • 6. Psalms 89:40
  • 7. Psalms 74:7
  • 8. Psalms 74:7
  • 9. Isaiah 43:28
  • 10. See Jeremiah 12:13
  • 11. 1 Samuel 2:1
  • 12. Psalms 74:11
  • 13. Psalms 79:5; Psalms 89:46
  • 14. Lamentations 3:12
  • 15. See Jeremiah 30:14
  • 16. [See ver. 4 above]
  • 17. ver. 16; [Psalms 35:25; Psalms 56:2; Ezekiel 36:3]
  • 18. [2 Kings 25:9]
  • 19. Isaiah 29:2
  • 20. Lamentations 1:4; Isaiah 1:13; Zephaniah 3:18
  • 21. Lamentations 1:4; Isaiah 1:13; Zephaniah 3:18
  • 22. Isaiah 1:13
  • 23. [Psalms 89:38]
  • 24. [Ezekiel 24:21]
  • 25. Deuteronomy 32:30
  • 26. Psalms 74:4
  • 27. [Jeremiah 5:10]
  • 28. ver. 18
  • 29. See 2 Kings 21:13
  • 30. Jeremiah 14:2
  • 31. Jeremiah 14:2
  • 32. Jeremiah 51:30; Nahum 3:13
  • 33. Jeremiah 51:30; Nahum 3:13
  • 34. [Hosea 3:4]
  • 35. Psalms 74:9
  • 36. Lamentations 1:1; Lamentations 3:28; Isaiah 3:26
  • 37. Ezekiel 3:15
  • 38. See Joshua 7:6
  • 39. Jeremiah 48:37; Ezekiel 7:18; Amos 8:10; See Jeremiah 4:8
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